对外汉语教学五十年——世纪之交的回眸与思考

Five Decades of Chinese Teaching as a Foreign Language ——Review and Thoughts at the Transit of Century

本文包括《回眸篇》和《思考篇》两大部分。前者根据教育部和国家对外汉语教学领导小组办公室的有关资料 ,对我国对外汉语教学 5 0年特别是实行改革、开放以来 2 0年的发展 ,并着重在学科建设方面 ,作了回顾和评介。后者根据新世纪我国对外汉语教学发展规划的精神 ,并参照一些专家的建言 ,就 2 1世纪初对外汉语教学的持续发展 ,仍着重在学科建设方面 。

This paper consists of two parts.Part One is,based on the data provided by the Ministry of Education and the State Office for the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language,a review of the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language,during the last 5 decades,especially during the last 20 years since China started implementing the policy of reform and opening to the outside world.In Part Two,the author puts forward some thoughts and ideas on the sustained development of the discipline at the beginning of the new century as envisaged in the Program for the Enhancement of the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language and proposed by some experts of China.What the paper emphasized is the development of the discipline during the past and in the future.